What's the difference between medallion and rosary?

Medallion


Definition:

  • (n.) A large medal or memorial coin.
  • (n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case is presented of a Medallion intraocular lens that dislocated posteriorly into the vitreous cavity.
  • (2) Before it was known that polyamide tends to dissolve in tissue, nylon sutures were used to fixate 2-loop-Medallion-lenses to the iris.
  • (3) Fourteen eyes underwent cataract operation and implantation of an iris fixated (Medallion) pseudophakos.
  • (4) Eighteen traumatic eyes were inserted with Medallion lenses in a very complex operation procedure.
  • (5) And one day he gave me a small medallion stamped with SakOil.
  • (6) A boy aged 3 years had a Worst Medallion intraocular lens with loops made of nylon 6 implanted in his right eye after aspiration of traumatic cataract.
  • (7) Field has already irked the medallion stallion with some low blows before the bell has rung, but it looks doubtful whether punches will be pulled for the number crunchers.
  • (8) Don't matter what colour you are: white, black, Asian – they gonna treat you the same' Facebook Twitter Pinterest For all the street-level rawness of his subject matter, there has long been something Forbidden Planet-friendly about Ghostface: his 1996 solo debut Ironman was named after the Marvel superhero, while in 2007, he was immortalised as an action figure with 14-carat medallion, retailing for a cool $500.
  • (9) "She had big medallions on, a little skirt, giving it loads and not giving a shit," recalls Mel B.
  • (10) The process was stopped by performing a penetrating corneal graft and replacing the offending lens with a Medallion two-loop Medical Workshop lens.
  • (11) Also like Michael, I got as far as "the furniture buying stage" with a hunky Marine recruiter who successfully wooed me with a plastic medallion that read: "The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good Men".
  • (12) A series of 46 large circular loop Medallion lenses were implanted after intracapsular cataract extraction and compared with a series of 254 suture Medallion lenses.
  • (13) The medallion lens was fixed to the iris but was not attached to the Soemmerring's ring.
  • (14) A large series of cases of intracapsular cataract extractions with implantation of the recently introduced Medallion circular loop lens is reviewed.
  • (15) Based on our results, we believe that the large circular loop Medallion lens should not be used for implantation after intracapsular cataract extraction at this time.
  • (16) Intracapsular lens styles were the most often used, and the Worst Medallion lens was by far the most popular.
  • (17) One eye contained a medallion lens and the other an iridocapsular lens (implanted for 53 months and 39 months, respectively).
  • (18) Now the radio industry's efforts to encourage consumers to go digital is to be led by a bearded, medallion-wearing 1970s soul singer called D Love.
  • (19) Makes 4 portions sustainably sourced fresh prawns 8 large, in their shells cornflour to coat Sichuan peppercorns 1 tsp garlic cloves 2, thinly sliced dried red chillies 5 spring onion stalks 2, cut into medallions oil for frying salt to taste De-vein the prawns and remove their heads and feet but keep the shells on.
  • (20) Antonio Mendez was one of 50 officers awarded the Trailblazer Medallion from among all officers in the history of the CIA.

Rosary


Definition:

  • (n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
  • (n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
  • (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
  • (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
  • (2) Adrenal insufficiency as a complication of antiphospholipid syndrome is reviewed, and a useful physical sign, the acromegalic rosary, rediscovered.
  • (3) When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
  • (4) During an operation 7 cm long string like rosary was removed.
  • (5) Volunteer, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Bristol.
  • (6) Nineteen patients had repetitive, nonlumen-obliterating, nonperistaltic (tertiary) contractions, six had corkscrew esophagus, and 10 had forceful, lumen-obliterating simultaneous contractions (rosary bead esophagus).
  • (7) Their happiness is irrational and interesting, because it is twin to the fury some express, so personally, towards abortion that they loiter outside family planning clinics with rosaries, believing that the aborting mother is depriving the world of something that comforts it, even if they will never know it; a prayer, in fact.
  • (8) A new type of vesicles with a marginal, rosary-like arrangement of particles was observed associated with masses of electron-dense particles.
  • (9) The Vatican's daily newspaper reported that each diver descending to the ship was carrying a rosary blessed by Pope Francis.
  • (10) Abdullah addressed the press wearing a western suit with a purple tie and pocket square – in contrast to Ghani who wore a traditional white shalwar khameez and thumbed a rosary, a sartorial nod to his Pashtun supporters.
  • (11) While a rowdy, at times almost carnivalesque protest took place alongside them, the anti-abortion protesters stood or kneeled and prayed quietly, some clutching rosary beads.
  • (12) Symptoms were similar in the majority of them: irritability, skin haemorrhages, swollen gums, scorbutic rosary, swelling and tenderness lower limbs.
  • (13) Much has been made of their harassment techniques that range from the insidious (bursting into hymn as tearful women emerge from the clinics, giving out plastic rosary beads in powder pink or baby blue at the door) to the mendacious (leaflets disguised as NHS literature that address the reader as "Mum" and speak of "not being able to look your future children in the eye").
  • (14) In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life.
  • (15) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
  • (16) It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans.
  • (17) A postcontrast CT scan at the level of the gallbladder body demonstrated the characteristic rosary sign.
  • (18) Images of the apartment interior show the bodies lying on floors covered in bullet shells and surrounded by rosaries and the images of Catholic saints.
  • (19) Get your rosaries off my ovaries, as we used to say.
  • (20) Chatsworth House is lending an object that bears witness to the religious upheaval of her father's reign, the rosary beads once owned by Henry - once ubiquitous objects, which in later years would come to be seen as dangerously heretical.